Background

The existing literature suggests that positive parenting might serve as a protective factor against immigrant adolescents’ engagement in externalizing difficulties when they are exposed to negative experiences of ethnic derogation. To date, little is known, however, about whether different dimensions of positive parenting may moderate the detrimental impact of ethnic harassment at school on immigrant youth’s antisocial behavior.

Objective

This study aimed to investigate which specific dimensions of positive parenting may act as a buffer against the detrimental impact of ethnic harassment at school on immigrant adolescents’ antisocial behavior (i.e., delinquency and violence).

Method

Using longitudinal data, we followed first- and second-generation immigrant adolescents (N = 365; Mage = 13.93, SD = .80; 46% girls; 37% first-generation) in Sweden over a period of one year. Data collection at Time 1 (T1) was completed in the spring semester of the school year, and Time 2 (T2) assessments took place a year after the first data collection. We ran a series of regressions analyses via the SPSS PROCESS macro for each dimension of positive parenting behavior and each type of antisocial behavior.

Results

We found that ethnically harassed immigrant adolescents who received parental warmth, perceived their influence on family decisions and whose parents were aware of their children’s daily activities were less likely to engage in delinquency and violence one year later. In addition, we saw that immigrant youth whose parents actively sought information about their offsprings’ lives were less prone to display violence in the face of ethnic harassment.

Conclusions

The results suggest that parents are important in overriding the noxious effects of negative peer interactions targeting their children’s ethnic background, even during an adolescence marked by significant changes in child–parent and child–peer relationships. These findings might inform the development of intervention components for testing in interventions studies aimed at preventing immigrant youths’ antisocial behavior and future involvement in violent criminal offences.

中文翻译：

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种族骚扰和积极养育子女对移民青年反社会行为的保护作用

背景

现有文献表明，积极的育儿可能会成为防止移民青少年面对种族减损的负面经历时参与外部化困难的保护因素。迄今为止，关于积极养育的不同方面是否可以缓解学校种族骚扰对移民青年反社会行为的不利影响，人们所知甚少。

目的

这项研究旨在调查积极养育子女的哪些具体方面可以作为缓冲措施，以防止学校种族骚扰对移民青少年的反社会行为（即犯罪和暴力）产生不利影响。

方法

使用纵向数据，我们追踪了瑞典的第一代和第二代移民青少年（N = 365；法师= 13.93，SD = .80； 46％的女孩； 37％的第一代青少年），为期一年。时间1（T1）的数据收集在该学年的春季学期中完成，时间2（T2）的评估在第一次数据收集的一年后进行。我们通过SPSS PROCESS宏对正面育儿行为的每个维度和每种类型的反社会行为进行了一系列回归分析。

结果

我们发现，受到父母欢迎的种族受到骚扰的移民青少年，意识到自己对家庭决定的影响，并且其父母意识到自己孩子的日常活动，一年后不太可能从事犯罪和暴力行为。此外，我们看到，父母积极寻求有关其后代生活信息的移民青年在面对种族骚扰时不太容易表现出暴力行为。

结论

结果表明，即使在青春期以父母与子女和同伴之间的关系发生显着变化为标志，父母对于克服针对孩子的种族背景的负面同伴互动的有害影响也很重要。这些发现可能有助于干预措施的发展，以便在干预研究中进行测试，以防止移民青年的反社会行为以及将来参与暴力犯罪。